Westerner

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  Hi, my husband is on erubician chemo (spelling may be off there)--just had his fourth treatment.  He has esophogeal cancer (4th stage) but after eight months of treatment the only active metasteses were in the liver, but they were growing.  So, they did radioembolization a month ago.  A week after the treatment, he started having a low fever (under 100.5) most evenings.  In the morning it's genera...

  July 13 at 7:42 AM view discussion

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  Hey everyone. This will be short as I'm typing it on my iPad. My husband had the SirSpheres treatment and so far so good. A bit of fatigue and a low fever at night, bit he's feeling better than he has in months. The doc says he can feel that his liver is going down. It's the only place he still has evidence of the disease. We just passed eight months with this thing. We did get to see his mother but h...

  June 20 at 7:25 AM view post

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  Hello everyone, I started this thread and never got back.  Things are...going okay.  Paul's live mets refuse to behave and started growing.  The doctor tried several other chemo combos, none worked well.  Finally, my husband began to retain fluid and had to have it drained--not fun but he felt much better afterward.  The latest chemo treatment seems to be working but his oncologist suggested...

  May 25 at 4:51 AM view post

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  I guess I was just wondering if anyone at stage IV was ever a candidate for surgery or radiation.  My husband has asthma which may make the surgery dicey at best.  So it scares us.  The doctor was very pleased with how well he'd done just with five treatments of chemo.  I guess it's unusual for it to go from multiple mets to only two left and those diminishing in such a short time.  I know th...

  January 23, 2012 view post

• Westerner has created a new message board discussion

  My husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 EC about three months ago. He started chemo and has tolerated it well.  He recently had a pet scan and all but two of the mets are resolved--and those left are much, much smaller.  The cancer in the esophagus has also resolved.  His doctor is still having him do chemo (but less often) in hopes of getting rid of the last two mets. My question is, if the esophageal ...

  January 07, 2012 view discussion